Year 11-13 Thematic Studies

• Wuthering Heights
• The Turn of the Screw
• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Frankenstein
• Dracula
• Jekyl and Hyde
• Northanger Abbey
• Jany Eyre
• Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote
• The Sound and The Fury' William Faulkner
• The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
• Interview with the Vampire' Anne Rice
• American Gothic Tales Joyce Carol Oates - includes many of the classic short stories like 'Sleepy Hollow' and Charlotte Gilman Perkins
• The Yellow Wallpaper

• Balibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack
• Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
• Huckeberry Finn - Mart Twain
• Breaking Away - Peter Yates
• The Hills - Patricia Grace
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• The Basketball Diaries - Scott Kalvert
• October Sky - Joe Johnston
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• To The Is-land - Janet Frame

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• Rebel without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
• The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• Malcolm X - Spike Lee
• The Destructors - Graham Greene
• Valkyrie - Bryan Singer
• Stone of Destiny - Ian Hamilton (novel and film)

• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• King Lear - Shakespeare
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
• A Beautiful Mind - Ron Howard
• Twelve Monkeys - Terry Gilliam
• The Tell-Tale Heart (short story) - Edgar Allan Poe

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
• Dead Poets' Society - Peter Weir
• A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• In My Father's Den - Mauruce Gee
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
• Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
• The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• American Beauty - Sam Mendes
• The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Keny Kesey
• St. Agnes Stand - Thomas Eidson
• The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - Alan Duff
• Kill Bill - Quentin Tarentino
• Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
• A Vendetta - Guy de Maupassant

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Richard III - Shakespeare
• Henry V - Shakespeare
• King Lear - Shakespeare
• All the King's Horsesl - Kurt Vonnegut
• A Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
• Invictus - Clint Eastwood

• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• Schindler's Ark - Thomas Kenneally
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• the Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
• St Agnes' Stand - Thomas Eidson
• A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
• Good Night and Good Luck - George Clooney
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• The Aeneid - Virgil

• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• Constantine - Francis Lawrence
• Richard III - Shakespeare
• The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
• Macbeth - Shakespeare
• The Killer Angels - Michael Schaara
• Poems of William Blake
• Lord of the Rings - J RR Tolkien
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• A History of Violence - David Croneneberg

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• The Merchant of Venice - Alan Duff
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Alan Duff
• Othello - Shakespeare
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Berniere
• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Poems by Sam Hunt

• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• One Flew Over The Cruckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton
• It's not about the Bike - Lance Armstrong
• Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• Lord of the Files - William Golding
• Between A Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
• Edgar Rice Shaun of the Dead
• The Road - Cormac Macarthy
• We Are Marshall - McGinty

• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (minorites not race)
• The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
• Othello - Shakespeare
• Benjamin Zephaniah - Poems by Michael Jackson (New Zealand poet)
• Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker
• Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
• Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
• Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
• Rabbit Proof Fence - Phillip Noyce
• Ballad of Birmingham - poem
• District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
• A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
• Translations - Brian Friel (play)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes
• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee
• Father and Son - Owen Marshall
• Father and Son - Cat Stevens
• Tangi - Patricia Grace
• On My First Sonne - Ben Jonson
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
• Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
• Death of a Salesman - Arthur miller
• A Histroy of Violence - David Cronenberg
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Digging - Seamus Heaney (poem)

• Henry V - Shakespeare
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Loius de Berniere
• Poems by WWI poets (Sassoon, Owen etc)
• Tu - Patricia Grace
• Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg
• Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
• Regeneration - Pat Barker
• Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick
• Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• War Horse - Steven Spielberg
• Once on Chunuk Bair - Maurice Shadbolt (play and film)

• Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Richard III - Shakespeare
• In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee
• One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
• The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick

• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• 1984 - George Orwell
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
• The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
• Minority Report - Steven Spielberg
• V for Vendetta - Wachowski Brothers
• Children of Men - P D JAmes
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (also a film)
• Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Torro

• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
• The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
• Hamlet - Shakespeare
• The Road - Corman McCarthy
• Genesis - Bernard Beckett
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

- There's a German film, "The Lives of Others" - has subtitles but is very

good. About the Stasi in East Germany.

- "Valkyrie" about the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in July

1944.

- The poem "Green Beret" by Vietnamese poet Ho Thien.

- Graphic novel and film version of V for Vendetta,

- Novel When she Woke

- Short stories Harrison Bergeron

- Examination Day.

- We used The Book Thief with this theme, focusing largely on the power of language/words. Worked well with mixed ability class.

- The Matrix

- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

- The Handmaid's Tale? A slightly different form of control - A Clockwork Orange (Burgess's novel rather than the film).

- Othello a different type of control

- Macbeth for political control.

- My Last Duchess

- The Constant Gardener and with a slightly different slant to that theme

- Atonement

- The Kite Runner

- The Island

- Stepford Wives

- Blade Runner

- Lord of the Flies